X-Men Star Halle Berry Shuts Down Hopes She Might Return as Storm for Avengers: Doomsday: 'Keep Waiting'

With the overwhelming magnitude of actors jumping into the Avengers: Doomsday formed — like, hello, did you spot the livestream?! — it’s a beauteous earthy measurement to deliberation that maybe, conscionable maybe, Halle Berry would instrumentality to the X-Men and reprise her iconic relation arsenic Storm. Sadly, it seems arsenic though that beauteous mentation volition not beryllium moving retired the mode fans hoped.

“We privation to spot your sanction connected a seat for Avengers: Doomsday, we privation Storm,” Black Girl Nerds told Berry connected the reddish carpet astatine CinemaCon successful Las Vegas recently, to which the Never Let Go prima replied with a chuckle and: “keep waiting. Not gonna beryllium there.”

Fans person been anxious to spot Berry marque her archetypal authoritative quality successful the MCU arsenic it stands today, adjacent earlier the Avengers: Doomsday formed reveal. She archetypal appeared arsenic Ororo Munroe, besides known arsenic Storm, successful Bryan Singer’s 2000 adaptation of X-Men, wherever she starred alongside a present iconic ensemble formed of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romjin, Ray Park, Famke Janssen, and Bruce Davidson. She went connected to reprise her relation successful 2003’s X2, 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Each of these films were produced by 20th Century Fox earlier they were purchased by Disney and integrated into the existent MCU — truthful fans seemed to beryllium truly holding retired anticipation that she would yet marque an authoritative quality wrong Marvel’s caller world.

Then came past month's Avengers: Doomsday formed reveal, which was dense connected seasoned X-Men actors. Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden are each present acceptable to look successful Avengers: Doomsday, confirming the X-Men are successful the movie successful a large way. Grammer famously played Beast successful the Fox X-Men franchise earlier making his MCU debut via The Marvels' post-credits scene. Stewart played Charles Xavier/Professor X successful the X-Men films earlier appearing concisely successful the MCU via Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness arsenic a subordinate of the Illuminati. McKellen, who played Magneto, has yet to look successful the MCU. Neither has Cumming, who played Nightcrawler, Romijn, who played Mystique, nor Marsden, who played Cyclops. It begs the question: is Avengers: Doomsday secretly an Avengers vs. X-Men movie?

And then, Marvel and Robert Downey Jr. teased they’re not done yet, which led fans to judge the likes of Halle Berry and different erstwhile X-Men actors who didn't marque the chopped inactive had a chance.

Berry's adjacent authoritative quality connected the large screen, however, is simply a movie called Crime 101, featuring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte. It is said to beryllium releasing sometime this year.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.